Top 100 Quotes About Higher
#1. Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
Alanis Morissette
#2. Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall
#3. The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.
Ashton Eaton
#4. Penalties were established for refusal to work, for leaving a place of employment to seek higher pay, and for the offer of higher pay by employers. Proclaimed when Parliament was not sitting, the ordinance was reissued in 1351 as the Statute of Laborers.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#5. The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
Criss Jami
#6. I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity.
Woody Norris
#8. Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education ... to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.
John Adams
#9. If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.
Frederick Lenz
#10. Listening to one's self as well as to others is a sacred act of healing. There is a higher octave of listening that hears the wisdom within the words.
Cheryl Hamada
#11. The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile.
[The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]
George Herbert
#12. Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course ... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.
Steve Coogan
#13. There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
T.D. Jakes
#14. Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.
Felix O. Hartmann
#15. Any fulfillment is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher fulfillment.
Albert Camus
#16. Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.
Epictetus
#17. In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.
C. Lloyd Morgan
#18. I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#19. It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.
Paul Achleitner
#20. She did not believe in a benign higher being. She could not. She had suffered too much to think of a heavenly force in the sky that would let such evil walk the earth without lifting a hand to stop it.
David Baldacci
#21. Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.
Michio Kaku
#22. We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?
Diane Arbus
#23. They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up
Bob Dylan
#25. For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.
Stephen Chow
#27. If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.
Frederick Lenz
#28. A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
Clark Kerr
#29. There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
Henry David Thoreau
#30. The internal, and eternal, struggle, between our base impulses and the rigorous demands of our own moral system is quintessentially human. It is how we conduct ourselves in that struggle that determines how we may in time be judged by a higher power.
Neal Stephenson
#31. Some aspects of life are strange or even terrible, but later something okay or even good happens that would never have happened without the bad/strange thing.
The Higher Power of Lucky
Susan Patron
#32. I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.
Craig Armstrong
#33. So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.
Paul Krugman
#34. Last is D, the number of spatial dimensions. Due to interest in M-theory, physicists have returned to the question of whether life is possible in higher or lower dimensions.
Michio Kaku
#35. Generate great impressions. This is a direct result of setting higher standards for yourself in your speech, dress, living environment, grooming, etiquette, study, research and commitment.
Archibald Marwizi
#36. High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
Patricia Marx
#37. Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.
Brunello Cucinelli
#38. There is wisdom climbing mountains," Maderos said softly. "For they teach us how truly small we are. This is just a pebble within one kingdom. There are higher mountains you must climb." ~ The Wretched of Muirwood
Jeff Wheeler
#39. By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.
Amory Lovins
#40. Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.
Charles Lapworth
#41. Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well pleasing to him. He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is - a purely egoistic cause.
Max Stirner
#42. What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.
Henry David Thoreau
#43. In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.
Robert Reich
#44. Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.
Julianne Davidow
#45. At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.
Randy Neugebauer
#46. Higher energy prices act like a tax. They reduce the disposable income people have available for other things after they've paid their energy bills.
John W. Snow
#47. I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prosperity, provided (and that is the important point) they are so naturally, by the effectiveness of industry, and not in consequence of an inflated currency or any artificial regulation.
John C. Calhoun
#48. One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.
Swami Vivekananda
#49. He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.
Voltaire
#50. The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His religion purely, loftily, impressively, before that multitude of "Bible-readers" whose only Bible is the Christian.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#51. For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.
Plato
#52. The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.
Thomas Adams
#53. When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling.
Paul Zane Pilzer
#54. The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. I believe that my connection to my higher power, is separate from everybody else's. I don't believe that the Muslims have all the answers and I don't believe the Christians or the Jews have all the answers.
Will Smith
#56. No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
Thomas Carlyle
#57. I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.
Koo Stark
#58. Even a trashy movie can make you cry. There were deep emotional reactions that ducked the censure of the higher reasoning processes and forced us to enact, however vestigially, our roles - me, the indignant secret lover revealed; Clarissa the woman cruelly betrayed.
Ian McEwan
#59. You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
Brian Tracy
#60. ... the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi
Virchand Gandhi
#61. There is one great beauty in idealized romance: reading it can make no one worse than he is, while it may help thousands to a cleaner life and higher inspiration than they ever before have known.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#62. It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They believe that the authorities of a socialist commonwealth would pay them higher salaries than those that they earn under capitalism.
Ludwig Von Mises
#64. Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.
Larry Winget
#65. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.
Charles Vest
#67. It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
John Hoeven
#68. As you evolve, the friends and lovers you attract will be of a higher caliber. Embrace that fact and do not be afraid to leave old relations behind if they cease to be compatible with you.
Shane Eric Mathias
#69. For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
Edward Abbey
#70. Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.
Erich Fromm
#71. Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#73. It is part of His plan to send suffering to bring out a higher good; but surely it's also part of His plan that as much of the burden of suffering as can be should be lightened by those whom it is His pleasure to make happy and content in their own circumstances.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#74. Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. I'm hardly just someone. I think I rate a little higher than that,
Alice Clayton
#76. The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
Christian Lous Lange
#77. We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of our actions-if they are to be moral-is responsibility. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success.
Vaclav Havel
#78. People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.
Craig Heyward
#79. We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.
David Milne
#80. Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
Blaise Pascal
#81. I don't know whether it's normal or not, but sex has always been something that I take seriously. I would put it higher than tennis on my list of constructive things to do.
Art Buchwald
#82. Orchestrating a diversified team can indeed enhance the higher level of harmony.
Pearl Zhu
#83. Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#84. I opened Union Square Cafe when I was just 27 years old, and my first hope was simply that it would stay in business. My higher hope was that in its lifetime, it might grow to play an essential role in the lives of its stakeholders.
Danny Meyer
#85. God does not deal with denomination, He deals with nomination and conformation for a higher life.
Vincent Ameh
#86. But to a higher mark than song can reach,
Rose this pure eloquence.
William Wordsworth
#87. The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism ... have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#88. I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
Kate Mulgrew
#89. I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.
Janet Jackson
#90. When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
Ben Okri
#91. Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.
Michka Assayas
#92. But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
Tina Turner
#93. How sweetly she looks! O, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy. - Anacreon, drink to my mistress' health, I'll pledge it. Stay, stay, there's a spider in the cup! No, 'tis but a grape-stone; swallow it, fear nothing, poet. So, so; lift higher.
Thomas Middleton
#94. Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future.
(Foreword by Frederick Ungar in Elective Affinities, 1962, Ungar Publishing)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#95. God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.
Arthur Guiterman
#96. There were as many Jews as Greeks in the Roman empire, and a higher proportion of them were literate.
Paul Johnson
#97. You could open the door, Frances whispers. Find your way through the steam, not even bothering to remove your clothes before stepping in with him.
His hands could slide along where your thin shirt molds against your hips. His fingers could find the hem, slowly gather it, inching higher.
Carrie Ryan
#98. Ownership in the world I have none, but I have an infinite interest in it; for if not my own it is my God's; and so it is mine in a higher than a legal sense. Yes, this is the beauty, this is the whole sublimity, this is the tender delight of life - that it is of God's governing.
William Mountford
#99. To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe.
Shakti Gawain
#100. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
